2-Chronicles - 3:5

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5 The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 3:5.

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And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.
And the greater house he ceiled with deal boards, and overlaid them with plates of fine gold throughout: and he graved in them palm trees, and like little chains interlaced with one another.
And the greater house he boarded with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm-trees and chains.
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains:
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains.
And the large house he hath covered with fir-trees, and he doth cover it with good gold, and causeth to ascend on it palms and chains,
And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
And the greater house he covered with cypress-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.
Also, he covered the greater house with wooden panels of spruce, and he affixed layers of refined gold through it all. And he engraved in them palm trees, and the likeness of little chains interlaced with one another.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The greater house - i. e., the holy place, or main chamber of the temple, intervening between the porch and the holy of holies (so in 2-Chronicles 3:7).
He cieled with fir tree - Rather, "he covered," or "lined." The reference is not to the ceiling, which was entirely of wood, but to the walls and floor, which were of stone, with a covering of planks (marginal reference). The word translated "fir" bears probably in this place, not the narrow meaning which it has in 2-Chronicles 2:8, where it is opposed to cedar, but a wider one, in which cedar is included.
Palm trees and chains - See 1-Kings 6:29. The "chains" are supposed to be garlands or festoons.

the greater house--that is, the holy places, the front or outer chamber (see 1-Kings 6:17).

Greater house - The holy place, which was thrice as large as the holy of holies.

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